Psalms 82:3

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Defend	שִׁפְטוּ shif.tu-	H8199	to judge · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
poor	דַ֥ל dal	H1800	properly · adjective, masculine singular absolute
fatherless	וְיָת֑וֹם ve.ya.Tom	H3490	a bereaved person · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
justice	הַצְדִּֽיקוּ hatz.Di.ku	H6663	to be (causatively · verb, hiphil imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
afflicted	עָנִ֖י 'a.Ni	H6041	depressed · adjective, masculine singular absolute
needy	וָרָ֣שׁ va.Rash	H7326	to be destitute · conjunction + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself u…
Psalms 10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Jeremiah 22:3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no…
Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Jeremiah 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they…
Deuteronomy 10:18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Deuteronomy 24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
Jeremiah 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 82:1-5

We have here, I. God's supreme presidency and power in all councils and courts asserted and laid down, as a great truth necessary to be believed both by princes and subjects (Psa 82:1): God stands, as chief director, in the congregation of the mighty, the mighty One, in coetu fortis - in the councils of the prince, the supreme magistrate, and he judges among the gods, the inferior magistrates; both the legislative and the executive power of princes is under his eye and his hand. Observe here, 1. The power and honour of magistrates; they are the mighty. They are so in authority, for the public good (it is a great power that they are entrusted with), and they ought to be so in wisdom and coura…

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John Gill on Psalms 82:3

Defend the poor and fatherless,.... Or, judge (d) them; such as have no money to enter and carry on a suit, and have no friends to assist and advise them, and abide by them; these should be taken under the care and wing of judges; their cause should be attended to, and justice done them; their persons should be protected, and their property defended and secured for, since they are called gods, they ought to imitate him whose name they bear, who is the Father of the fatherless, the Judge of the widows, and the helper of the poor that commit themselves to him, Psalm 10:14, such a righteous judge and good magistrate was Job; see Job 29:12, do justice to the afflicted and needy; or "justify" (e…

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John Calvin on Psalms 82:1-4

Psalm 82:1-4 1. God sitteth in the assembly of God: he will judge in the midst of the gods. [422] 2. How long will ye judge unjustly? and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3. Determine the cause of the poor and the orphan; justify [423] the helpless and the destitute. 4. Rescue the poor and the afflicted: deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. 1 God sitteth in the assembly of God. [424] It is unquestionably a very unbecoming thing for those whom God has been pleased to invest with the government of mankind for the common good, not to acknowledge the end for which they have been exalted above others, nor yet by whose blessing they have been placed in so elevated a station; but i…

Dictionary and topics

Afflicted, Duty Toward The · To protect them — To protect them
Fatherless · Defend — Defend
Judge · CHARACTER OF, AND PRECEPTS RELATING TO — CHARACTER OF, AND PRECEPTS RELATING TO
Justice · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Orphan · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Poor · UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO — UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Poor, The · Defend — Defend
Rulers · 9:8;19:6,7; — 9:8;19:6,7;

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 82:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 82:1-5

John Gill on Psalms 82:3

John Calvin on Psalms 82:1-4

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 82:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 82:1-5

John Gill on Psalms 82:3

John Calvin on Psalms 82:1-4

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 82:1-4

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 82:2

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 82:3